National Review, March 9th, 1984
Terms of Endearment
TELEVISION, like a reverse Falstaff, is not only witless in itself, but also the cause of witlessness in other fields it has contaminated: theater and, especially, film. A flagrant example of this is Terms of Endearment, a movie that, besides being a crowd-pleaser, has already won numerous awards. Written and directed by James L. Brooks, it is loosely based on a novel by Larry McMurtry, and much more tightly on Brooks's experience as co-creator of such TV serials as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, and Taxi. Terms of Endearment is the thirty-year story of love, and ...
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